Among Hangzhou’s rising “Six Little Dragons,” the founders of DeepSeek, DEEP Robotics, and Manycore Tech share a common origin — Zhejiang University. This raises the question: What is it about Zhejiang University that fosters such a remarkable breed of innovators and entrepreneurs?Cultivating the pioneers of tomorrowFifteen years ago, when LIANG Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, completed his master’s thesis at the Zhejiang University College of Information Science & Electronic Engineeri...

Have you ever imagined yourself stepping onto a state, your hands trembling with nerves, the unfamiliarity of musical instruments still fresh in your mind. Yet, after 16 weeks of dedicated learning and practice, you stand confidently before an audience, captivating the entire audience. At Zhejiang University, teachers and students alike, united by the Opening the Door to Art serial courses, shared the state, unveiling a semester of artistic exploration and aesthetic discovery.This spectacul...

Imagine stretching a rubber band as hard as you can without breaking it. A research team led by Prof. XIE Tao and WU Jingjun from Zhejiang University’s College of Chemical and Biological Engineering has 3D-printed a “super rubber band” capable of stretching to nine times its original length. Remarkably, this tiny band, only about 1 mm in diameter, can lift a 10 kg bag of rice, far outperforming other elastomers produced through 3D photo-curing.Fig.1: Photographic image of the "Super...

On the evening of October 26, 2024, from 8:00 PM to 1:00 AM Beijing time, the HiZJU-China team, primarily consisting of undergraduate students from the College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University (ZJU CBE) made history at the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) 2024 Grand Jamboree in Paris. This marked their fourth participation since the team's founding in 2021, and they earned multiple awards, including the Gold Award and four Best N...

Controllable doping in a perovskite semiconductor enables ultra-bright LEDsSemiconductors are at the heart of the modern electronic industry. The ability of controlling the polarity and concentration of electric charges in semiconductors have led to revolutionary inventions including diodes, transistors, solar cells, detectors, LEDs and semiconductor lasers. For typical semiconductors, the control of the electrical properties is achieved by “doping”, the inclusion of impurity elements into the...

1111MicrosoftInternetExplorer402DocumentNotSpecified7.8 磅Normal0From the melody of the Czech folk song “Aj Lučka, Lučka Široká” and the Mongolian folk song “Four Seas,” to the harmony of the Broadway musical “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” the stage was set for an extraordinary fusion. How did the intermingling of Chinese and foreign ballads with contemporary pop songs resonate when performed at the same stage?On June 10, the Whiffenpoofs from Yale University and the Wenqin Choi...

Some gut bacteria can collaborate to promote T-cell action against tumours in mice, raising hopes for treatments.A new study led by Zhejiang University researchers has identified ways by which some microbes might influence cancer immunotherapy, suggesting a potential microbial-based adjuvant approach to improve the responsiveness of immunotherapy. Their results were published in Cell1 in March 2024.Doctors and scientists have long been puzzled about why some patients respond better tha...

Cross-cultural communication is crucial in today's globalized world and is key for China and other countries to understand each other.This was the sentiment shared among students and teachers from the world's leading higher-education institutions as they gathered in Zhejiang province to compete in the 2024 International Elite Universities Water Sports Open.Over 400 participants from more than 20 prestigious universities, including Peking, Tsinghua, Zhejiang, Harvard, Yale, and Cambridge ...

A breakthrough in electrolyte design has enabled battery charging at very low temperatures and at unprecedented speed.A new electrolyte designed by Zhejiang University researchers enables lithium-ion batteries to be charged at temperatures between –70 °C to 60 °C, and reach up to 80% capacity within 10 minutes at room temperature. Their findings were published in Nature1 in February. Lithium-ion pouch battery in researchLithium-ion batteries, which power electric vehicles and most of...

A team of researchers from the Bird 10,000 Genomes (B10K) consortium, initiated by Professor ZHANG Guojie of Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University and collaborators, has reported a new bird family tree that promises to reshape our understanding of avian evolution. Published in Nature on April 1st, 2024, the study entitled Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes marks a pivotal advancement in the long-contested evolutionary relationshi...